Best Places to See in BC - Gitwangak Battle Hill

Gitwangak Battle Hill 

National Historic Site of Canada

(formerly known as Kitwanga Fort)

is located in northwestern 

British Columbia along highway

37 - the Stewart-Cassier highway.

Built in the 1700's by the

Gitwangak First Nations people 

the hill was used as a fortified

location for homes and

a site to launch raids against 

the Nass River and coastal peoples.

The indigenous trading routes of British Columiba

included the Grease Trails, named after

the small fish called eulachon

which run in the Nass and Skeena Rivers.

The fish were boiled to extract their oil and

were traded with other Native groups

that did not have spawning rivers in their

territories.